News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
TIL |. MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
EVENTS OF n NOTABLE CHAR
ACTER FOUND RECORDED.
An Experimental Hens Dilemma
The Boys-A Queer Calf-WilIing
to be Pushed, etc. etc

to be Pushed, etc, etc.
JOHN GDsoN of Roberts Island, Cal
shot wild dove, which dropped in the
grain near his house. Seeing something
larger where it fell, he blazed away
again, and killed his 13-year-old boy.
A PERFECT galvanic battery exists il
the person of a st. Louis man who was
recently struck by lightning. He can
impart the current to those coming IL
contact with him, and he is affected
with violent spasms.
A MACON mule has an artificial throat.
He was sick with something like laryn-
gifts, and the veterinary surgeon, seeing
that it would soon be impossible for the
animal to breathe through his wlndplpe,
portion of the pipe was removed and
silver tube was inserted, and now the
mule breathes freely.
A MINNEAPOLIS Lady, making her way
through a crowd on the street the other
day, accidentally pushed a small boot
black into the gutter. She instantly
stopped and said: my boy, excuse me;
l did not mean to push you" The little
fellow stared at her a moment, and then
turning to his companion, said: ''Say,
Mickey, I'd be pushed offn the walk
every day to have a real lady talk to me
that way"
PRISONERS in the county jail at Can
ton, Ohio, caught big rat, formed n
court, gave him regular trial for his
life, found him guilty, and the judge
sentenced him to be hanged the next
morning at sunrise. At that hour he
was led out by Edward Mcguire, held on
the charge of highway robbery, who
acted as sheriff, and when the execution
was over Charles Danzisen, held for
attempted wife murder, cut the body
down.
THE Boston Badget tells this story of
q Boston school ON exhibition day" :
The teacher gave out the word ''hazard-
ous'' for q boy to spell, and to her great
surprise he promptly spelled it ''hazard-
ess.' Thinking that the definition
might Jog his memory in regard to the
orthographical blunder of which he was
guilty, she asked him to give the mean
ing, whereupon her establishment was
intensified with the reply: ga female
hazard"
THE women in and for eight or ten
over with wrath because the terrible
roaring of the immense gas well at that
village has been more disastrous to the
egg crop than the loudest thunder ever
heard. Not an egg will hatch, and even
the old hens refuse to lay, the noise be
ing so great that the biddies become so
bewildered that they cannot return to
the nest and even forget to put a shell
on the egg.
THE other day a letter came to the
North Adams, Mass, post office, ad-
dressed as follows: "To the State of
Massachusetts, where North Adams nest
les mid the hills peaceful and fair, there
put in the post office safe under lock and
kew until -- calls and asks is
there any mail for me p" All over the
face of this letter was written the words
''rats" aud ''chestnuts' inscribed by the
different mailing clerks through whose
hands the letter had passed.
EXPERIMENTS of an interesting char
acter are still being carried on with
view of perfecting the Siemens process
for casting glass rs if it were one of the
metals, and which, it is hoped, may in
certain important cases be used as n
substitute for the latter. 1t is asserted
in its favor that, in addition to its tough
ness and endurance, glass cannot be af-
fected by the atmosphere like other
materials, and that cast glass need not
be more expensive than cast iron.
FARMER SPENCER of West Monroe,
N. Y, has queer little calf. 1t is six
weeks old, and about half the size of q
of &c fc
genuine black wool, similar to that seen
on lambs, while perhaps there are half
a dozen spots of long silky white hair.
Its legs and feet resemble those of a
calf, while its head and tail, which are
black, are those of a sheep, and it bleats
like lamb. The mother and father of
this curiosity were both of bright red,
and Mr.. Spencer has had no sheep on
the premises until few weeks ago. The
mother refused to own her offspring, and
would have destroyed it had it not been
taken away.
WHEN lot of little boys get together
and, touching a match to a fuse, drop
an armful of firecrackers into an empty
barrel, and then stand off Watching the
effect, it may seem for moment as if
the heavens were about to tumble. But
when they come up again and peep over
into it they find nothing but a heap of
smoky little wads of cOlored paper that
have only burst themselves in their
spasm for momentary sensational effect
This little parable is commended to
good many people who may be prone to
measure things by the momentary noise
they seem to be making. Noise is no
measure of power.
One day during the pedagogical ca
reer of the eccentric Tom Wight, of
Maine, poor little ragged urchin en-
tered complaint that some of the larger
boys had got his knife, but which one
he was unable to state. Diligent in
quiTy was made, but all to no purpose.
The teacher then gave thema sound lee
ture on the wickedness and folly of
thieving, concluding by stating that
big fly was now crawling over the nose
of the very lad who had stolen the knife
Quick as a flash one of the members
clapped his hand to the place indicated.
snow, young man." said Uncle Tom,
"disgorge." The knife was immediate
ly returned to its rightful owner, the
thief took his thrashing like a little
man and the matter was dismissed.
SAVED HIS BOOTS.
A Farmer Gets Caught Under
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